The Life and Times of the Watters Family

Post-By-Mail Wrapping Test

This is simply a test message to test the hack I added wp-mail.php to address the unnecessary hard text-wrapping that it does to things posted by e-mail. It’s pretty lame that I’ve got to do this, but oh well.

It should, however, maintain paragraphs correctly, so I’ve protected that function.

Here goes nothing!

UPDATE:

Woohoo! Got it working now. I should now be able to post from my e-mail without any stupid wrapping issues.

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Yet Another Test Message

This is yet another test of the mail functionality. I’m trying to implement category functionality. Hopefully this works. I’m sick of all of my posts ending up in “Uncategorized”.

UPDATE:

So I’ve got categories working now. The problem is, when I post via e-mail it’s hard-wrapping lines un-necessarily, which makes the posts look funny on the website. Now I’ve got to go in and fix that.

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Yet Another Test

Testing a new cron job…should update posts by mail every 5 mintues now…

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Speaking of the WordPress post-by-email support (see yesterday’s post), this is apparently an area of WordPress that is fertile ground for enhancement. Currently (I’m using WP 1.5 beta nightly builds), there doesn’t appear to be any support for multiple or per-post categories. All items submitted via e-mail are assigned the administrator as an author. Author could be determined by looking at the e-mail address in the from box. If the e-mail matches a current user, publish it. If not, put it in “draft” mode. Author could also be set in the body/subject of the message.

Also, the submission is completely un-authenticated. It would seem like it should be possible to incorporate some sort of public/private key encryption (optionally) to allow people to add some security to the process.

Maybe if I just implemented these things and submitted a patch, they’d accept it. Or maybe not. It’s worth a shot.

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